Too Much Wood?

[kanzaris]

Hi


I have already got a big piece of Mangrove Wood in my tank. To replace most of the Slate I have bought two more pieces off wood. Now I have realised that maybe too much wood is going to turn my water acidy? Also one of the pieces is oak.

What I would like to know is oak going to be ok for my Brackish Tank.
And if I add coral to my external filter will this be enough to neutralise the amount off wood I have got? The tank being 160 gal and the filter a Fluvel FX4. I also got a V2 Skimmer 1500

I know I should have thought off it before I bought the wood especially as big pieces of wood aren’t cheap.

As always any advice is appreciated.

Thanks

Sabby

 

[kanzaris]

Is anybody out there who got any ideas?

Sabby

 

[kj23502]

I don't know for sure...I'm waiting to see if anyone else can answer it. I want some drift wood in mine too!

 

[kanzaris]

I don't know for sure...I'm waiting to see if anyone else can answer it. I want some drift wood in mine too!

I know I have ask a similar Question before. And I was told then that if I do regular Water changes and the Hardness doesn’t drop lower then 7.5 I be ok.

The difference is that I want to add two more big pieces to the tank and one of them is Oak.

Suppose I just have to monitor the hardness of the water.

Sabby

 

[3ndl3r]

just keep testing the water. if it starts to cause a problem, remove some of it. keep removing until it hardens up

 

[Fella]

Hi Sabby, haven't seen you on for a while! Hope all is well.


Sounds like the wood might be too big, but usually if I was going to remove tannins from a smaller piece before adding it to a tank, I'd put it in a toilet cistern. It's a trick that means It's constantly leached and then cleared and as long as you don't have any detergents should work out fine, but from the sounds of it these pieces of wood might be too big. If it were me I'd probably add them and then remove a third of teh water every 3 days until you could see no tannins/tea water. I'm sure it would probably work out fine.

How are the fish? Any new photos recently?

 

[Brackishdude]

I,ve never had any problem, though tannins continue to tint my water over 2 yrs since stting up this 180gal tank.

More pics of my tank

My tank pics

 

[kanzaris]

Hi Sabby, haven't seen you on for a while! Hope all is well.


Sounds like the wood might be too big, but usually if I was going to remove tannins from a smaller piece before adding it to a tank, I'd put it in a toilet cistern. It's a trick that means It's constantly leached and then cleared and as long as you don't have any detergents should work out fine, but from the sounds of it these pieces of wood might be too big. If it were me I'd probably add them and then remove a third of teh water every 3 days until you could see no tannins/tea water. I'm sure it would probably work out fine.

How are the fish? Any new photos recently?

Hi Fella

All is well, just been busy.
I just have been made redundant so I will be on here a bit more now.

Your Chromide is doing so well, it’s bigger then my Archers or Monos.
I will post some pictures soon, especially of my Cat Sharks they have grown huge.

Back to my Wood problem. The Tannins don’t bother me as I have them all the time from the existing piece of wood. My main Question is that if I add anymore wood will this lower the hardness and Ph of the water? And one piece is Oak, is Oak ok to go into Brackish Water? The guy at Wharf Aquatics said it would be.

Sabby

 

[bassdna]

hey buddy im trent sounds fine to me there is a few products that u can get to keep that ph steady

carib sea cichlid substrate is a good one(that will always keep the ph steady) up to ph of 7.8 - 8.2

seachem alkiline buffer


sometimes wood can cause a little acidity but its arumentive to how much though it is a organic compound and the tannins are acidic in nature its questionable to see how much it would change a brackish enviroment if sea salt or sea water is used ..

good luck with though